Anitra Raging Granny / Raging Moderate Freeman's Posts
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February 01, 2008 03:50 AM EST --
I grew up in a family where reading and writing were considered normal human activities. I wrote my first poem when I was five. I have written poetry all my life, and even published a few, in spite of . . .
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January 31, 2008 04:07 AM EST --
A poem is whatever I, as a writer, persuade you, as a reader, to experience as a poem.
Some readers are convinced all of the time: they will gush equally over Jack Kerouac and every imitator at the . . .
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July 01, 2007 12:27 AM EDT --
I am, frankly, not much better at photography than I am at drawing; but I love making graphics on the computer. A few years ago when I was trying to come up with original flower images to use in . . .
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June 18, 2007 01:39 AM EDT --
On November 26, 1950, 2nd Lt. William T. Howard (my father) was one of 30,000 United Nations troops under the command of American General Douglas MacArthur in northeast Korea. (7th Army, B Company, . . .
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June 16, 2007 03:40 PM EDT --
The woods are not a metaphor for any human thing.
Cities are a metaphor for trees.
We have tried to recreate
roots, shelter, aspiration,
the nourishment we once plucked from her hand,
and all our building . . .
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June 15, 2007 01:25 AM EDT --
My mother's mothers walked on speaking earth
to hear the soothing croon of healing herbs,
the ever present drum of tree and rock,
moon's messages of year and season's turn.
Within the city's . . .
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June 14, 2007 09:16 PM EDT --
How to describe cat
curled contented in chair
as I perch on milk carton
in front of keyboard
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June 11, 2007 11:56 PM EDT --
Welcome to Overcommitment Anonymous. We are men and women who have come together to share our strength and our pain in overcoming overcommitment.
We have scheduled an extra hour a day for meetings to . . .
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June 11, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
Political activism begins at home.
You who are proud of being vegetarians, of not using pesticides, of not stomping spiders -- do you even recognize "dust bunnies" as living creatures? . . .
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June 11, 2007 10:10 PM EDT --
If you have never read Don Marquis, you can get an introduction to the story of Archy and Mehitabel at http://www.donmarquis.com/archy/
"Have you taken your meds?" Archy asked me.
"I . . .
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June 10, 2007 05:25 PM EDT --
The Worm Saga: My First Adventures in Vermicomposting recounted how I started to raise my first batch of composting worms in the box they came in -- that Priority Mail Box in Photo #1 -- and the other . . .
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June 08, 2007 01:49 AM EDT --
Deceased, I tell you! dead dead dead dead dead...
Not everyone wants to give up on it, though.
We bought most of our garden plants for our building's first garden from the nursery, or grew them from . . .
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June 07, 2007 05:11 AM EDT --
The tenants in our apartment building started our first urban garden this April. One of the first decisions we made was that it would be an organic garden.
When I hear "organic garden" I think . . .
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June 06, 2007 04:07 AM EDT --
My bones are shells, my flesh hangs soft,
family treats me like delicate china;
well,
my head does look like an egg in a cup.
I still tend my garden.
Butterflies weave among spires of delphinium,
lay . . .
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June 05, 2007 01:50 AM EDT --
Our apartment building's small urban garden is divided into three raised beds, officially dubbed the herb bed, the strawberry bed, and the veggie patch. Actually, several types of plants are mixed . . .
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June 03, 2007 09:13 PM EDT --
I'm taking the Great Cucumber Challenge from Mother Earth News: I hope to grow five different kinds of cucumbers, three or four plants of each variety, in our tiny urban garden, among all the other . . .
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June 03, 2007 03:22 AM EDT --
"Mother Earth News" magazine has a "GREAT CUCUMBER CHALLENGE" contest going. To score points:
Try various types of cucumber (Give yourself 1 pt. for each type)
Match supply . . .
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June 02, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
The tenants in our apartment building started our first group garden this year. Our inaugural planting was April 28th. Among the first plants we put in were half-a-dozen trays of "mesclun" . . .
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June 02, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
I have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and there is a flip side to ADD that not many people know about: when our attention does get fixed on something, it stays fixed! This is called "hyperfocus" . . .
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June 01, 2007 05:53 AM EDT --
We (the tenants in our buiulding) bought half a dozen trays of "mesclun," mixed greens, from Home Depot for our first garden this year. I've spent the last month trying to identify them. . . .
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